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Mountains (David Garland)
The musical landscapes of Mountains include lush valleys and vertiginous heights, gentle slopes and walks in the clouds. This Brooklyn-based duo of childhood friends Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Anderegg uses plugged-in acoustic guitars and an array of electronics to create a dense sound full of detail. Host David Garland welcomes Mountains to the WNYC Studio to perform and talk about their music.
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, Mountains performs at Le Poisson Rouge as part of the More about Mountains
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When we talk about mountain music many assume we mean American country music or fiddle playing to square dancing. In classical music in the age of Romanticism ALL composers reveled in nature and mountains and snow-capped peaks. Beethoven's Symphony #6 the Pastoral symphony delights also in nature's animal kingdom. Wagner's operas abound in mountainous, even a fire-girt one to protect Brunnhilde from any but the bravest hero to defy fire to reach her.
Brahms would walk mountain paths to "converse" with nature. Who can forget the scary Moussorgsky "Night on Bald Mountain" particularly as Walt Disney animated it in his film "Fantasia". Shakespeare makes dramatic use of forests and mountains in his plays. "As You Like It" takes place in the Arden Forest. Kenneth Bennett Lane, director of Richard Wagner Music Drama Institute, where artists are trained for all the roles of Wagner's operas and all the Shakespeare roles. Wagner and Shakespeare, in a sense were plateaus above other genius "mountains". www.WagnerOpera.com
Wondering what the songs were (and what albums they're on) that you played.
brought up the sounds from Sea Organ Zadar, Crotia on youtube : )
mountain immediately broght up the sounds of
Sea organ, Zadar, Croatia on YOUTUBE. : )
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